prouvés

\pʁu.ve\

/\pʁu.ve\/ adj

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The verdict

“prouvés” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,969. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,969
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de prouvé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-prouves · prouvés · French

prouvés · rank #46,969 · 11 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #46,969
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH progressant

Nearest frequency peer: progressant (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « prouvés »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « prouvés » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

prouvés vs prunes
57% similar
prouvés vs prouvez
71% similar
prouvés vs proue
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for prouvés
PropertyValue
Headwordprouvés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pʁu.ve\
Letters7
Frequency rank#46,969
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prouvés »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).prouvésse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « progressant » (#46,968), « prudentes » (#46,970), « primordiaux » (#46,967). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « prouvés » est au #46,969. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around prouvés (IPA \pʁu.ve\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,969 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de prouvé.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for prouvés, with forms such as "poruvés", "pprouvés", and "prouves". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "prunes", "prouvez", "proue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prouvés, spelled P-R-O-U-V-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de prouvé.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • poruvés
  • pprouvés
  • prouves
  • prouvsé
  • prouvvés
  • prouvéss
  • prouévs
  • provués
  • prrouvés
  • pruovés
  • rpouvés

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prouvés - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

poruvés2pprouvés1prouves1prouvsé2prouvvés1prouvéss1prouévs2provués2
Edit distance from "prouvés"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prouvés"?
"prouvés" is spelled P-R-O-U-V-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁu.ve\.
What does "prouvés" mean?
As an adjective, "prouvés" means: Masculin pluriel de prouvé.
What words are commonly confused with "prouvés"?
"prouvés" is commonly confused with "prunes", "prouvez", "proue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prouvés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prouvés" is \pʁu.ve\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prouvés" come from?
"prouvés" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prouvés", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list